Shibu Soren wins floor test by 19 votes

Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu
Soren, heading a JMM-BJP coalition government, on Thursday won a
trust motion in the assembly by 19 votes.

Sixty-five-year-old Soren received 45 votes in the
81-member House while 26 were cast against him.

All five RJD members abstained from voting, while Enos
Ekka of Jharkhand Party, Independent Harinarayan Rai,
Congress` Gopal Nath Sahadeo and Arup Chatterjee of the
Marxist Coordination Committee were absent.

Ekka and Rai are in jail in a disproportionate assets
case.

Soren was invited by Governor K Sankaranarayanan on
December 27 to form the government and asked to seek a vote of
confidence by January eight when he was sworn-in for a third
time as chief minister on December 30.